tell us what you know. >>reporter: jake carney is telling reporters the president will have a statement reacting to this. the benghazi story, the terror attack is something that has put pressure on this white house and put pressure on senior intelligence officials like general petraeus. this is a complete surprise. there was note idea he would step down. the statement coming across earlier, reporters have been expressing carney on whether the president still had confidence in general petraeus and he said he did an excellent job as c.i.a. director and went on to say that he had no personnel announcement. it is obvious he was being careful in what he said and he knew that something was bubbling up. the statement coming from the director of the national intelligence, that confirmed that david petraeus is stepping down. he did not site a reason. it is clear that the white house secretary was being careful because this was playing out just in the last few moments. again, we are told the president will have a sta